Research
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With the cost to sequence a full human genome soon to fall below US$1,000, most people will have their DNA sequenced and stored in a database along with their medical records. The hardware revolution has…
In these two short interviews, two of the winners of the 2013 Faculty Fellowship Award—Animashree Anandkuma and Monica Tantori—talk about their research and how being selected for the award will help them advance their work.…
In 1981, Richard Feynman proposed a device called a “quantum computer” that would take advantage of methods founded on the laws of quantum physics and promise computational speed-ups over classical methods. In the last three…
Robin Hanson of George Mason University, Sanmay Das of Virginia Tech, and David Pennock of Microsoft Research discuss the science behind prediction markets and how they can lead to better insight into the future. This…
